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Things Seen 23 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
Things seen while jogging tonight, in order: An attractive couple in their late 40s, dressed in red A tent at the south end of freeway park, lit with strings of incandescent bulbs A string duo play...
Seattle Summer 22 Aug 2013 | 10:22 am
Today at lunch, every outdoor table was full. And there wasn’t even a Japanese dance-drumming performance like when this happened last week. I think this may be a well-known Seattle phenomenon. Call ...
Strained 19 Aug 2013 | 10:21 am
One of the novels recommended to me by my distinctly addled and often unconscious seat neighbor on the bus to Philadelphia recommended me a book by the name of The Strain, branded with the name of no ...
On The Edge 16 Aug 2013 | 09:47 am
Canonical has proposed to make a phone, the Ubuntu Edge. If they can get $32,000,000 of preorders, they propose to build a high-power Android smartphone with some pretty sweet features, like really go...
The Blackout 15 Aug 2013 | 10:20 am
10 years ago this afternoon, I was a summer intern at Pfizer corporate headquarters, doing some not very exciting traffic analytics for the Pfizer.com team. By some odd stroke of luck, I had been assi...
Hyperswitch 14 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
I liked vactrains even before I read Elon Musk’s hyperloop design. The fundamental problem with vactrains is that no one can afford to build hundreds of miles of maglev track. Wheels would melt at sup...
Nothing 11 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
I saw Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing at least once in high school, and I think again some time after. It was set in some abstract medieval time, but it somehow felt entirely modern. Maybe it...
Singin’ 7 Aug 2013 | 10:59 am
Tonight we had Seatown Sound’s first real concert. Maybe. It depends how you think about it. This winter we had two major performances, mostly pre-existing arrangements of Christmas Carols. To me tho...
La Isla 6 Aug 2013 | 10:20 am
On Saturday I got my first real introduction Puerto Rican food, courtesy of La Isla a Seattle restaurant founded by some food-obsessed islanders who are extremely far from home. We ate tostones (fried...
Rainier 3 Aug 2013 | 10:55 am
Hotels and lodges near Mt. Rainier fill up weeks in advance during the summer months. Last week we booked one of the few available rooms, planning an overnight trip to explore the national park. We st...
